This is an excellent overview of the issue, to the extent it's actually an issue.

It means buy $80 million worth of software from Microsoft.

Dude, it’s the well-actuallys who are getting it wrong. However *you* pronounce that word is how it *should* be pronounced. You’re Hearty Effing White.

Beyond everything, I don't think that the fertility rate going down in the U.S. -- population ~340 million -- is an existential threat to *humanity,* population ~8 billion.

Humanity is doing just fine making babies in places outside of 'murica.

The deification of the Nazarene Thousands of years ago, it was common to imagine that some people were actually gods on Earth. We don't do it anymore but the practice still affects us. You know who I'm talking about.

I know everybody's all wigged out by the Trump-Jesus image, but people deifying leaders is a practice that's thousands of years old. Back in the day everybody got deified. Hammurabi, Caesar, Jesus. Everybody. I wrote a post about this not two weeks ago: paulvigna.substack.com/p/the-deific...

My theory is no species develops unless there are sufficient resources for it. There may be temporary shortages due to disasters or something, but in general resource constraints don’t exist. Every species has what it needs to survive.

Thanos is just comic-book Thomas Malthus, which gives an intellectual veneer to his genocide. But like Malthus, his rationale was absurdly off base.

1. The sun
2. Oxygen
3. Apples
4. Water

:)

Jesus died for debts, not sins A mortal man named Yeshua led a crusade for debt forgiveness; he was crucified for it, and a god-cult grew up around his memory. But the deification overshadowed his true fight.

Here's my Easter Sunday sermon. It's about a crusader for debt forgiveness who took over the temple in Jerusalem in 33 AD along with his followers, was arrested, and crucified for the crime.

You may have heard a slightly different version of the story.

open.substack.com/pub/paulvign...

The deification of the Nazarene Thousands of years ago, it was common to imagine that some people were actually gods on Earth. We don't do it anymore but the practice still affects us. You know who I'm talking about.

I know today’s a day to celebrate the mystery of the resurrection, but I’m thinking of something else: how’d people come to see a carpenter as a god in the first place?

open.substack.com/pub/paulvign...

I have to think that if money wasn’t involved no college would embrace AI.

A different kind of nakedness.

I’m sorry, what did you say? Can you speak up please?

I can’t hear you.

I’m tone deaf.

I’m sorry, what did you say? Can you speak up, please?

I can’t hear you.

I’m tone deaf.

That’s me!

I don’t think the people saying that were necessarily wrong, were they? It’s not like we’ve had some intellectual renaissance since search engines were introduced.

Man, it takes stones to just say this publicly.

On the one hand, I have never felt inconvenienced writing a paper check. On the other hand, I personally would not keep $500 million tied up in a digital bearer bond that has an amazing propensity for being hacked, but that’s just me.

The Giants need to be leading by 40 heading into the fourth quarter just to have a chance.

I would have preferred a halftime firing, but I’ll accept any time tonight.

This secondary would make Mike Glennon look good.

Well that’s a relief. I legit worried he’d say something worse.

You wouldn’t know it. It lives in Canada.

330 million or so more like him and we wouldn't need the government.

"Why don't you tell me the name of the movie you want to see."

(When Kramer pretended to be Moviefone.)

Somebody should do a separate interview with Jeffries' spine. Assuming it can be found.

I may be a little late to the party, but I think it's time for us to start holding our elected officials to a higher standard.

And the reality is, it's not really true. They're spending a trillion a year. Of course they could afford it. It's just easier and quicker for them to just steal it all.

This is so saying the quiet part out loud I can't believe he actually said it.